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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: kitchingardens on March 18, 2012, 03:30:41 pm

Title: Foraging pigs
Post by: kitchingardens on March 18, 2012, 03:30:41 pm

Hi. Am new on the forum. We are still in early stages of setting up - no pigs yet ! We want to combine pig rearing with woodland management. Does anyone know what happens to a bluebell or wood anenome colony once rotivated by pigs. Is that the end ? Does it need to start from scratch again, or will it re-generate quicker than that ?
Look forward to any thoughts - not annihilating local flora pretty key to our plan ! Thanks

Title: Re: Foraging pigs
Post by: robert waddell on March 18, 2012, 03:52:22 pm

a customer of ours has his pigs forraging in woods with snowdrops
it improves the flowering and they multiply  the bulbs as well    the pigs keep the weeds and grass down but they are also fed  none of this grass eating malarkey
the pigs do not touch the snowdrop bulbs :farmer:

Title: Re: Foraging pigs
Post by: princesspiggy on March 19, 2012, 04:15:37 pm

mine dont seem to root much in dense woodland but choose the softer patches of pasture instead which they completely turn over. i think alot is down to your stocking rates.